Officials today are working to clear a dead 45-foot-long male humpback whale that washed onto Dockweiler State Beach just before the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Curious onlookers are being kept 200 feet from the carcass as marine mammal rescuers, lifeguards and county Beaches and Harbors Departm...

Long Beach police today a ounced a memorial service for Credo, a police dog who was killed during an officer-involved shooting Tuesday mo ing. The service is scheduled for 1 p.m. July 20 at Long Beach Police Officers Association Park, 7390 E. Carson St., behind Lowe’s at the Long Beach Towne Center....

Patrick “Pat” Moorehead’s second jump from an airplane was scarier than his first leap. But the prospect of leaping into the sky was not so frightening to prevent a third jump. Nor a fourth. Nor the thousands of additional jumps that have resulted in Moorehead, an 84-year-old Long Beach resident and...

Play close attention the next time you fork over money for that Lakers jersey you’ve been wanting — it might just be a fake. Avid sports fans across Southe Califo ia often pay big bucks for what they think are licensed sports apparel, only to find out later that they were duped. That was likely the ...

Ten new townhome-style condominiums appear to be on their way to Signal Hill, but it may take a while for residents to tu the key on their new homes. With neighbor conce s over the loss of views, and property values, the City Council on June 28 voted to table until September a possible vote on appro...

Signal Hill officials will get a small raise in their stipends. The City Council unanimously voted June 28 to increase their monthly stipends by 35 percent, or another $173.04, to $667.44, with the increases costing $2,076.48 per councilmember a ually, or $10,382.40 for the entire City Council. “The...

Dead humpback whale washed ashore at Dockweiler State Beach Beachgoers stop to see a dead humpback whale that washed ashore at Dockweiler State Beach Thursday. (Photo by Brad Graverson, Daily Breeze) By City News Service PLAYA DEL REY >> A dead humpback whale washed ashore at Dockweiler State Beach ...

Play close attention the next time you fork over money for that Lakers jersey you’ve been wanting — it might just be a fake. Avid sports fans across Southe Califo ia often pay big bucks for what they think are licensed sports apparel, only to find out later that they were duped. That was likely the ...

WASHINGTON >> A driver so enamored of his Tesla Model S sedan that he nicknamed the car “Tessy” and praised the safety benefits of its sophisticated “Autopilot” system has become the first U.S. fatality in a wreck involving a car in self-driving mode. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administrati...

LOS ANGELES - The Southland’s third heat wave of the summer season is over, and a cooling trend is about to get underway, forecasters said today. Today’s temperatures will be at or near normal, and Saturday’s will be a couple of degrees below normal, said National Weather Service meteorologist Rich ...

HIGHLAND >> A Cal Fire firefighter in Highland Thursday found a new use for the trauma shear scissors. Panicked dog owners brought his dog to Cal Fire station, 26974 Base Line, after the pup got its head stuck in a jar. “This doggie ... got into the hard plastic jar to steal the trail mix inside and...

Dead humpback whale washed ashore at Dockweiler State Beach The Lifeguard Division of the Los Angeles County Fire Department posted this photo on their Twitter page of a dead humpback whale at Dockweiler State Beach on Thursday, June 30, 2016. Photo courtesy of LACoFD Lifeguards Twitter page By City...

Southe Califo ia’s air pollution regulators unveiled an air cleanup plan Thursday that essentially calls for the region to buy its way out of the worst smog problem in the nation. The draft plan from the Southu2009Coast Airu2009Quality Management District relies on cash incentives of about $1u2009bi...

OMAHA, Neb. >> The U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials haven’t been the most secure place for veterans this week. But on Thursday night, Anthony Ervin made it fun again to be a bit older than the sport’s standard. Tyler Clary, another Southe Califo ia mainstay, wasn’t too far behind at CenturyLink Center. ...

LOS ANGELES >> Califo ia is again testing how much democracy is too much, with voters facing up to 18 ballot questions in November that could end the death penalty, cut into the cost of prescription drugs and free marijuana smokers to legally light up in the nation’s most populous state. The cascade...

EUGENE, Ore. >> It would not be overstating it to call Allyson Felix the poster girl for the U.S. Olympic Track Trials. After all, her likeness appears on a oversized billboard stretching across much of the back of Hayward Field’s iconic East grandstand, Felix, who competed locally at Los Angeles Ba...

Adult film performers who work in the San Fe ando Valley and beyond had hoped an initiative requiring condom use during production shoots would be withdrawn from Califo ia’s November ballot. But by Thursday evening — the deadline for proponents to withdraw initiatives — the Condoms in Po ographic Fi...

OMAHA, Neb. >> Katie McLaughlin held on to the rail in her lane, staring straight at the wall. She congratulated one of her competitors and left the pool before the emotions flowed. Tears in her eyes, the 18-year-old from the Mission Viejo Nadadores said she wanted to warm down after the women’s 200...

A South Carolina man who worked as a teacher at a private school in Long Beach a decade ago has been arrested by Buena Park police officers on suspicion of the “continuous sexual abuse of a child” who was a student of his, authorities said Thursday. Jason Gorski of Fort Mill, 43, was arrested on Jun...

EUGENE, Ore. >> It would not be overstating it to call Allyson Felix the poster girl for the U.S. Olympic Track Trials. After all, her likeness appears on a oversized billboard stretching across much of the back of Hayward Field’s iconic East grandstand, Felix, who competed locally at Los Angeles Ba...